Jaywalking? -- No, it directly endangers others. Riding a motor cycle without a helmet? -- Go for it. riding with no Seatbelt? -- Go for it. Sex with kids 14 and up? [the roman Polanski/R Kelly/Woody Allen Law] -- Make it 18 with a clause about 19 year olds dating 17 year olds or something. Freedom of religious practice? -- Your soul, your god.
What??? If you have a wreck at any kind of speed, say 45+ MPH, you can easily get tossed out of a car...even from the back seat. People get thrown from cars all the time...or if the car rolls over or flips being in the back seat doesn't help you. Plus your an insurance liabilty if you don't wear a seatbelt for anybody that hits you, or if the person your riding in the car hit somebody and injures you. I can't honestly think of a reason why anyone would argue against wearing a seatbelt.
I was wondering about this the other day. Why wouldn't you wear a seatbelt? Seriously. Is it a testosterone thing? A subtle F-U to authorities? Is it about comfort? My car doesn't go anywhere unless everybody is buckled up. But my dad and one brother refuse to wear them. Just don't understand, I guess.
The law in California is underage to underage sex is OK if they are within two years or something like that after age 14 or so until age 18. I'm way past that so I haven't really paid attention. Everything else should be as DaDakota said. You give up your life/health insurance though if you ride a moto without a helmet or are in a car accident and didn't wear a belt, otherwise the rest of us are subsidizing your freedom of choice. Religious practice - are you referring to relgiions that use drugs?
maybe because "In God We Trust." not "in Allah" or "in Buddha"...the nation is a nation under God - Christianity is accepted as the main practice. If you went to India - and say you were a Christian - you would understand that they worship whoever they do and you would be respectful of that - is it too much for the Christian nation to ask the same?
Yes it is too much to ask. Texas, first in sodomy law enforcement, now deciding that Scientology is a religion and not Unitarian as a religion. http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/8689409.htm Texas official says Unitarian church not a tax-exempt religion BY R.A. DYER Knight Ridder Newspapers AUSTIN, Texas - (KRT) - Unitarian Universalists have for decades presided over births, marriages and memorials. The church operates in every state, with more than 5,000 members in Texas alone. But according to the office of Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, a Texas Unitarian church isn't really a religious organization - at least for tax purposes. Its reasoning: The organization "does not have one system of belief." Never before - not in this state nor any other - has a government agency denied Unitarians tax-exempt status because of the group's religious philosophy, church officials say. Strayhorn's ruling clearly infringes upon religious liberties, said Dan Althoff, board president for the Denison, Texas, congregation that was rejected for tax exemption by the comptroller's office. "I was surprised - surprised and shocked - because the Unitarian church in the United States has a very long history," said Althoff, who notes that father-and-son presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams were both Unitarians. Strayhorn's ruling, as well as a similar decision by former Comptroller John Sharp, has left the comptroller's office straddling a sometimes murky gulf separating church and state . . .
Many people consider me a liberal but when it comes to crimes and stuff like that im like the biggest conservative of 'em all. I think that drugs should include cigarettes and beer because they do more harm than pot, so if cigarettes and beer are legal, so should be pot. wow, that doesn't sound very conservative after all, but i know i am since i don't do any of those things. freedom of religion is a sticky one for me because i go to church every sunday yet i don't think religion should be forced on anyone. it is a choice someone makes with him/her self. i don't understand what "freedom of religion means" though cuz it looks like we are pretty free to believe what we want. i am a Christian yet i don't dissrespect any other religion, I respect Islam and the Jews alike, I even have some Jew friends. Unless i'm missing something it seems that we have the freedom of religion thing down here in the U.S.
